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The cell walls of plants are made of cellulose. Approximately 33 percent of all plant material is cellulose. Humans cannot digest cellulose, but animals such as cows and horses can digest cellulose for food.
People cannot digest cellulose
Grass has cellulose, which humans do not have the bacteria to digest, like cows or horses do. You can eat it, but you can't really digest it for energy. Also, something about not having a working appendix.
None. Animals that can digest cellulose host special bacteria to digest the cellulose molecules, and humans do not host these.
Actually ruminants cannot digest cellulose, they have symbiotic bacteria in a part of their stomach called a "rumen" digest the cellulose down to sugars and starches that the ruminants can actually digest in another part of their stomach later.
Humans can't digest cellulose.
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Cellulose.
You can not digest cellulose or what we call fiber.
People cannot digest cellulose
Methylcellulose and psyllium are indigestable carbohydrates. They sweep and clean the intestines. Humans lack the enzyme necessary to break the bonds that link the saccharides together. Certain bacteria in ruumens and horses, for example, digest the cellulose for these animals. Termites can also digest cellulose.